According to the latest voter registration statistics on the Clark County website, it was yet another excellent day for Democrats. We netted 789 (!) new active voter registrations over the Republicans today. Awesome day. The count is now 429,771 active registered Democrats to 291,733 active registered Republicans for an advantage of 138,038 . We broke the record!!! The previous record margin among active voters was 137,489 in January of 2013.
And the great news here is that Clark County continues to comprise a higher and higher percentage of Nevada’s voters overall. At the final deadline for registration for 2008, active voters in Clark County made up 67.50% of all active voters in Nevada. In 2012, they made up 67.73%. As of the September statewide report from this year, that figure was 69.07%. I fully expect it to cross 70% by the voter registration deadline on Oct. 18th.
To put this in perspective: in 1996, when Bill Clinton won reelection, Clark County voters who acutally voted in the presidential election made up 56.58% of Nevada’s statewide total. In 2012, that percentage ballooned to 67.17%.
On a somewhat related note, the numbers are looking pretty good in Florida as well. In Broward County (Ft. Lauderdale), since the last report which came out at the end of August, Democrats have netted 5,719 active voters. In Pinellas County (St. Petersburg), during the same time frame, we have netted 1,038. In Hillsborough (Tampa), we netted 3,022. In Duval (Jacksonville), we netted 1,784. And in Orange County (Orlando), we netted 5,043. The only county in Florida which doesn’t show its updated counts on the front page of its website is Miami-Dade. (Sigh.) I follow the trends from these county websites religiously. Am I crazy? You betcha!
My bold Florida prediction is that we will finally win Duval County this year. The last Democrat to win Duval County was Jimmy Carter in 1976.